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Eleven people were injured when they jumped out a second-story window near Paris early Saturday, thinking a naked man looking after his crying baby in the night was the devil, the local prosecutor said.

"Thirteen people were in an apartment on the second floor when, around 3.00 am, one of the occupants heard his child crying," said Odile Faivre, the deputy prosecutor in Versailles. "The man in question, of African origin, who was completely naked, got up to feed his child, at which point the other occupants took him for the devil. He was seriously wounded in the hand after being stabbed with a knife before he was thrown out of the apartment, via the door."

The naked man then tried to get back into the flat in the town of La Verriere, west of Paris.

"That's when the other occupants tried to escape by jumping out of the window, panicked by a fear of the devil," said Faivre.

Police questioned the would-be devil, aged 30, and another man who jumped from the window with a two-year-old girl in his arms.

Seven of those injured were taken to the hospital for emergency treatment.

Investigators were trying to clarify a number of issues surrounding the case, including whether everyone jumped voluntarily or if some were forced to do so, Faivre said.

SOURCE: AFP

While we are on the subject of morality, is it attempted murder to run around naked in really tall buildings causing Christians to jump to their death? Would it be wrong for all atheists to start taking off their clothes before walking around tall buildings?

If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy.- Malcolm X

OK, I am only guessing on this one but I would bet that they were all recent African immigrants.

I say that because my executive director spent a couple of years in Zimbabwe handing out grant money. One of the stories he tells is about some dude who stepped out of his grass hut in the middle of the night to go weewee. When he did so, he saw an ugly old woman and killed her. The real government convicted him of murder. However, the final arbiter there is the tribal court and they let him off on the grounds that she was so hideous that it was reasonably possible to mistake her for a demon.

Beyond Saving wrote:

Police questioned the would-be devil, aged 30, and another man who jumped from the window with a two-year-old girl in his arms.

Investigators were trying to clarify a number of issues surrounding the case, including whether everyone jumped voluntarily or if some were forced to do so, Faivre said.

OK, what part of “forced to jump” am I missing here?

I can pity the Africans for their utter stupidity. But the police of a nation that led the Enlightenment can't figure out if a two year old in her father's arms can voluntarily jump off a roof?

I still don't understand, were they all sharing the same apartment? If not, is it one of those places with a common kitchen and common bathroom? And that still would not explain why the naked guy was in view of others. Wouldn't the baby and father be in the same room, or adjoining rooms separate from the others?

Or maybe this guy was simply nuts. But that still doesn't excuse the other nuts from claiming that he was the devil. Being mentally ill is often, by believers, mistaken for the devil.

HEY DIPSHITS, there is no such thing as a devil. This guy was merely nuts, not possessed by your stupid superstitious fictional super villain.

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A wee baby died in the fall. From what I have read the guy was just nursing a crying baby.

He was in his own flat. These folks crowd in. Pretty normal way for an extended african family to live.

Ok, in this case these superstitious idiots had no right invading his flat and it is their own stupidity that caused this. Even when I was a kid I showered with my dad. He didn't molest me any more than a mother molests their kid when giving them a bath.

What a bunch of fucking morons. I could see some sort of panic if this guy was running around naked in a common area, but even then, it would be because of mental defect, not some superstitious bullshit. But if what you say is the case, and he was minding his own business, those morons should be institutionalized.

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No, they're Angolans, of the superstitious African bunch that renews Christianic witch hunts... But anyway, good job devil, with making these people jump out of window. I wonder what did they expect to happen if they would stay in the room, the "devil" would do what?